Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Good recordings of Faure's Requiem, whether (as here) in the version of 1883 or in the full orchestral score of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Such is the record industry's reliance on complete oeuvres that it must be hard for performers wishing to present a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/1995
Britten may have written A Ceremony of Carols for boys' voices, but the pure and unpretentious qualities of these female...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1993
Moses und Aron has had a fair number of productions since its posthumous premiere 40 years ago, but it has...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996
It is a pity that the Beethoven—much the most engaging performance and recording here—is sandwiched between the two Tchaikovsky items,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1983
Donizetti’s 20th fulllength opera was given a mixed reception on its première in 1829‚ then ran for another five performances...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Well-crafted music with a distinctive melodic drift, nicely played and beautifully recorded (the two quintets could provide an object-lesson in...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
It is good to have another version of Liszt's Dante Symphony competing for attention in this his centenary year, not...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1986
There are three Toscanini accounts of Sibelius's Second Symphony one from an NBC broadcast of December 7th, 1940, which RCA...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1990
Bach’s sonatas for violin and harpsichord are such treasures of melodic beauty, rhythmic vitality and compositional resource that it is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2007
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
New releases celebrate iconic recordings, fresh discoveries and musical adventures across the...
WiiM Ultra/VibeLink Amp: an ultra-compact take on the ‘just add speakers’ system, this affordable...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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